package openerp-server 5.0.5-1 failed to upgrade due to a missing group; chown: invalid group: `openerp:openerp'

[john]

Binary package hint: openerp-server

Upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. Openerp upgrade failed during the upgrade process. Prior to rebooting ran the following:

john@john-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for john:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up openerp-server (5.0.5-1) ...
Open ERP user (openerp) already exists, doing nothing.
chown: invalid group: `openerp:openerp'
dpkg: error processing openerp-server (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

john@john-desktop:~$ sudo groupadd openerp

john@john-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up openerp-server (5.0.5-1) ...
Open ERP user (openerp) already exists, doing nothing.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* Open ERP uses a PostgreSQL database to store its data. With the first *
* generation of packages, you have to setup this database manually. *
* Please read /usr/share/doc/openerp-server/README.Debian how to do it. *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Starting openerp-server: openerp-server.

john@john-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
john@john-desktop:~$

Notice that when I manually added the group the subsequent install worked. I am unsure if this is the currect solution, but it worked for me.

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering: openerp-server: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 26 20:12:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openerp-server 5.0.5-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: openerp-server
Title: package openerp-server 5.0.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Setting status to triaged due to duplicate report.